Twin-tip ski

Twintips are skis, in which both the front and the rear end is bent in contrast to normal alpine skis.

So every ski has two peaks (English tips), in contrast to classical Alpine skiing, which have a top and a "tail" (English tail). This facilitates reverse driving, because the ski can not quickly dig into the snow through the upturned rear end. This is especially true for landing after jumps and off-road driving. On a groomed ski run (usually switch or fakie in the scene called ) is without a bent- end reverse possible. With the Twintips goes a great deal easier, since in addition to the bent ends of the ski binding is central mounted and the sidecut is designed for forward and reverse.

Most twin tip skis are also a little softer (higher Flex) and a little less fitted than regular skis. In addition, they usually have a center-mounted bond, a stable internal structure and strengthen edges. Thus they are intended to provide more stability when landing after freestyle tricks and even large loads, such as jumps on Rails, healing survive.

The development of Twintips dates from the '70s in which the Acrobatics (at the time, later Ballet is a form of Hotdogging ) was invented. Today is run with ski just like with snowboards in halfpipes and terrain parks. As more and more people themselves aufbogen their skis behind them damaged so often, the manufacturer of this growing demand gave ear, and brought out the Twintips. Twintips have won especially after the advent of snowboarding important.

However, there are designs of Twintips, among other things, exactly symmetrical real Twintips where the tips have the same dimensions, as well as the rest of the width / extent of the ski. With these you can ski binding, depending on your preference, on the left ski "forward" and assemble the right ski directed to the "back ". However, this is only for real Twintips, also from Flex ( bend line ) are after an identical structure, it is possible. An example of such is the K2 Disorderly Ski. This ski has been at the apex ( tip), as well as the tail (tail ) has a width of 109 mm. The flex of the ski is also at the front of exactly the same as the rear.

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